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Scindian, the Glossary

Index Scindian

Scindian is widely considered the first convict ship to transport convicts to Western Australia.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 44 relations: Ancestry.com, Barque, Builder's Old Measurement, Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope, Comptroller General of Convicts (Western Australia), Convict era of Western Australia, Convict ship, Dragoon Guards, East India Company, Edmund Henderson, Elba, England, Fremantle, Fremantle Prison, George Throssell, Grenadier Guards, Gross register tonnage, Harbourmaster, House of Scindia, India, Italy, Lloyd's Register, Net register tonnage, Parkhurst apprentices, Penal colony, Penal transportation, Portsmouth, Premier of Western Australia, Queen's Regiment, Rio Marina, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Marines, Saint Helena, Sapper, Sunderland, Surgeon-superintendent, Swan River Colony, The Times, Thomas Hill Dixon, Western Australia, William Finlay (mayor), 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays).

  2. 1844 ships
  3. Convict ships to Western Australia
  4. Maritime incidents in November 1880
  5. Shipwrecks of Italy

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Barque

A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.

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Builder's Old Measurement

Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship.

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Cape Colony

The Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Comptroller General of Convicts (Western Australia)

The Comptroller General of Convicts was the head of the convict establishment in Western Australia.

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Convict era of Western Australia

The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire.

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Convict ship

A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.

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Dragoon Guards

Dragoon Guards is a designation that has been used to refer to certain heavy cavalry regiments in the British Army since the 18th century.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Edmund Henderson

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson (19 April 1821 – 8 December 1896) was an officer in the British Army who was Comptroller-General of Convicts in Western Australia from 1850 to 1863, Home Office Surveyor-General of Prisons from 1863 to 1869, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1869 to 1886.

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Elba

Elba (isola d'Elba,; Ilva) is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino on the Italian mainland, and the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fremantle

Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital.

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Fremantle Prison

Fremantle Prison, sometimes referred to as Fremantle Gaol or Fremantle Jail, is a former Australian prison and World Heritage Site in Fremantle, Western Australia.

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George Throssell

George Throssell (23 May 1840 – 30 August 1910) was the second Premier of Western Australia.

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Grenadier Guards

The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Precedence.

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Gross register tonnage

Gross register tonnage (GRT, grt, g.r.t., gt), or gross registered tonnage, is a ship's total internal volume expressed in "register tons", each of which is equal to.

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Harbourmaster

A harbourmaster (or harbormaster, see spelling differences) is an official responsible for enforcing the regulations of a particular harbour or port, in order to ensure the safety of navigation, the security of the harbour and the correct operation of the port facilities.

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House of Scindia

House of Scindia (anglicized from Shinde) is a Hindu Maratha Royal House that ruled the erstwhile Gwalior State in central India.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Lloyd's Register

Lloyd's Register Group Limited, trading as Lloyd's Register (LR), is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering.

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Net register tonnage

Net register tonnage (NRT, nrt, n.r.t.) is a ship's cargo volume capacity expressed in "register tons", one of which equals to a volume of.

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Parkhurst apprentices

The Parkhurst apprentices, juveniles from a reformatory attached to Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, were sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas" and transported to Australia and New Zealand between 1842 and 1852.

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Penal colony

A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

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Penal transportation

Penal transportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.

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Premier of Western Australia

The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia.

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Queen's Regiment

The Queen's Regiment (QUEENS) was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1966 through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade.

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Rio Marina

Rio Marina is a frazione of the comune of Rio, in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany, located on the island of Elba.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises thirteen Regular Army regiments, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and five Army Reserve regiments.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army.

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Royal Marines

The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).

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Saint Helena

Saint Helena is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory.

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Sapper

A sapper, also called a combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, preparing field defenses, and road and airfield construction and repair.

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Sunderland

Sunderland is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Surgeon-superintendent

A surgeon-superintendent was a position, held by a surgeon officer of the Royal Navy, on board convict transport ship and ships transporting indentured labour, with overall authority in all non-nautical matters.

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Swan River Colony

The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Thomas Hill Dixon

Thomas Hill Dixon (20 February 1816 – 30 January 1880) was the first Superintendent of Convicts in Western Australia.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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William Finlay (mayor)

William Finlay (22 February 1840 18 June 1886) was a policeman and the first mayor of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

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2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

The 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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See also

1844 ships

Convict ships to Western Australia

Maritime incidents in November 1880

Shipwrecks of Italy

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scindian